The latest victim is Toronto school board trustee Sam Sotiropoulos, who couldn't help but type out his contempt for some misbehaving students.

Wednesday he tweeted, "Had some eye opening experiences at one of our schools yesterday with a couple out of control youth. Seriously ill-bred twerps."

The tweet was soon deleted. But Sotiropoulos continued to stand behind it.

In a meeting with reporters, he read from a statementexplaining that "When the student in question was confronted about their behavior, the torrent of taunts, profanity and abuse that was their response is something no TDSB (Toronto District School Board) employee, student or parent should be asked to disregard or ignore."

He also retweeted several messages of support he'd been receiving:

Perhaps. But does that mean school officials should resort to name-calling, broadcast over social media? The school board's vice chair didn't think so, telling CTV"It's not appropriate for an official of the board to make such comments about students and to do it in a public forum."

After a couple more students and board members jumped on the bash-wagon, Sotiropoulos relented and posted an apologyfrom the same Twitter account which launched the controversy.

"As a point of #TDSB professional decorum, I withdraw my remarks re: a pair of anonymous students. I regret my choice of words. Mea culpa," he wrote.

CTV had reported Sotiropoulos was possibly facing sanctions from the school board.

Lesson now possibly learned, as of Friday he was tweeting far less controversial remarks... on the proper way to apply syrup to his son's waffles.

The trick is to use a small hand strainer to apply the maple syrup. Works like a charm every time, waffle ends up uniformly sweet not soggy.